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UNSW-EC0 [UNSW]

UNSW-EC0 is an Australian 2U-CubeSat designed by Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research at the University of New South Wales participating in the QB50 project.

The QB50 project, which demonstrates the possibility of launching a network of 50 CubeSats built by Universities Teams all over the world to perform first-class science in the largely unexplored lower thermosphere.

It carries the INMS (Ion/Neutral Mass Spectrometer), which measures the mass of ions and neutral atoms, as the primary payload for the QB50 project.

The satellite also carries four non-QB50 Payloads:

• the Namuru GPS Board
• the seL4bit SBC seL4 microkernel board to carry out critical functions (ADC)
• the RUSH FPGA, a radiation tolerant FPGA SBC to provide user defined downtime in case of SEU, capable of �no loss of service�
• RAMSES, a 3D printed Satellite Structure using Selective Laser Sintering of high temperature thermoplastic

The satellite was launched with the bulk of the QB50 constellation to the ISS in 2017, from where the satellite was deployed on 25 May 2017.